The Social Experience

Bharath Duggirala110000E3FQ
is part of Professional services group of IBM/Kenexa, based out of IBM Visakha Hills Lab in Visakhapatnam. He was earlier part of WebSphere development at IBM India Software Labs in Bangalore. Prior to this, he was a consultant at WebSphere BPM Practice. He is a Certified SOA Solution Designer(2007), Certified SOA Associate, co-author of WebSphere InterChange Server Migration Scenarios redbook. He is Member, Board of Studies, Dept of CSE, College of Engineering, Andhra University. He blogs here and tweets, sharing his Social Experience, as the scroll of Life unrolls in the Eternal Enterprise!

The prestigious 95th Indian Science Congress is being hosted by Andhra University, Visakhapatnam from Jan 3 to Jan 7, with Knowledge based society using environmentmentally sustainable science and technology as the theme. Honourable Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh will be inaugrating it on Jan 3 and the main venue is the sprawling grounds in the engineering college, where I used to play cricket, when I was pursing my BE in AU.

Being CRM (Campus Relations Manager) from IBM to AU, I also work for IBM's participation in various technical events happening in the campus and establish a long standing relation. IBM conducted a Technology Day during Aug 2007 at the engineering college campus, which I've posted earlier here. Dr C Mohan, IBM Fellow and IBM India Chief Scientist is participating at this event by being part of a panel discussion and giving a talk on Women in Technology hosted by Dept of Science and Technology, Govt of India. I'll post more on the happenings in my later postings here and I'm looking forward to visit my good old campus this weekend.

Finally I could get sometime to blog after settling down into the new year and a good vacation! It was great to participate at the Indian Science Congress and glad that our sessions went on well as planned. I'm posting here some photos of the event, covering Dr C Mohan's participation at four different tracks. The co-panelists and the audience of Bio-informatics (For the first time in the history of Indian Science Congress, a track on Bio-Informatics was held) track got a good glimpse of the kind of work that IBM is doing at Computational Biology Center under IBM Research. One of my next steps is to link the research work being pursued by Dr Allam Appa Rao Prof in Bio-informatics and Principal of College of Engineering(Autonomous), Andhra University and his research team with Computational Biology Center.

This was followed by a session on Women Scientist sensitization program, which was briefly covered in the Bay news under the title Unique workshop for women scientists and the address given by him at the Children Scicence Congress was very inspiring to the children and was covered very well in the city edition of The Hinduhere. He stressed on the need to remain technical and be passionate in your career and still can make a big difference to your organization. The best part which I liked is, Dr Mohan surrounded by children after his talk for a photo and autograph. Finally we could get sometime to attend other tracks and network.